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100 Photos That Had No Influence on the World
Time has just posted a mini-site about the 100 most influential photographs of the world, accompanied by their history. The selection is very relevant, the images are fantastic and varied, there is nothing to add. So I decided to present here 100 photographs that had absolutely no influence on anything. Existence, thankfully, their only merit.
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What Is a ‘Self’?
Here Are All the Possibilities. By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
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The Secret Life of Time
It may seem slippery and maddeningly abstract, but it’s also deeply intimate, infusing our every word and gesture. By Alan Burdick.
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How to Build a Time Machine
The concept is a lot newer than most people realize. By Maria Konnikova.
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No Man Will Shake Me From This Land
Dr. Bones makes the case why no election will drive him from the shores of this continent…
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The moment that changed Picasso
A short trip to an ancient village was the catalyst for a profound shift in Picasso’s work – but it is often overlooked. Alastair Sooke finds out more.
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Jimmy Breslin Was New York City
Legendary New York City newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin died on Sunday at the age of 88. This profile originally appeared in the November, 1987 issue of GQ and appears here with permission from the author. By Ambrose Clancy.
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The Gift of Presence, The Perils of Advice
A helpful word can be a salve, but it's not always what we need. Parker Palmer on the power of quiet, unobtrusive presence to heal in troubled times.
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The Trash Heap Has Spoken
The power and danger of women who take up space. By Carmen Maria Machado.
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Between Everywhere and Nowhere
A little review of travel literature. By Bernd Brunner.
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The Chinese Factory Workers Who Write Poems on Their Phones
“An unprecedented opportunity in the history of working class literature.” By Megan Walsh. (May 1, 2017)
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Saul Steinberg’s View of the World
As a cartoonist myself, I am dismayed that there’s little of Saul Steinberg’s that I can steal, the crossover in the Venn diagram of the image-as-itself versus as-what-it-represents being depressingly slim. I am painfully aware that in comics, stories generally kill the image. But Steinberg’s images grow and even live on the page; somewhere in the viewing of a Steinberg drawing the reader follows not only his line, but also his line of thought. By Chris Ware.
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Plastiglomerate
Whichever (if any) start date is chosen, plastiglomerate—a substance that is neither industrially manufactured nor geologically created—seems a fraught but nonetheless incontrovertible marker of the anthropogenic impact on the world; it is evidence of human presence written directly into the rock. By Kirsty Robertson. (Dec. 2016)
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Summer in the Heartsick Mountains
On a nearly moonless night in late May, as I stumbled down a wide, smooth path near a large campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it suddenly occurred to me that I can’t see in the dark anymore... By Ellie Shechet.
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Native or Invasive
Neither people nor plants fit into easy categories in the post-colonial era. By Anjali Vaidya.
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Shuffleboard At McMurdo
"The point of building McMurdo was to get Americans to the South Pole, part of an unpublicized Antarctic base race with the Soviet Union." By Maciej Cegłowski.
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The Infinite Now
Armand Dijcks, Ray Collins, André Heuvelman, Jeroen van Vliet
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The Instagrammable Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque. By Daniel Penny.
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Holly Butcher’s moving final letter goes viral after death
A Heartbreaking letter written by a dying young woman is going viral after she passed away last week.
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City as Character
Getting lost in the text-cities of Joyce, Döblin, and Dos Passos. By Tyler Malone.
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